CUBASI_KASTRONO THIS IS A BLOG FOR DEMOCRATIC AND FREEDOM LOVERS. THIS BLOG IS AGAINST THAT BLOODY DICTATORSHIP OF KASTRO IN CUBA AND ALL HIS ACCOMPLICES AROUND THE WORLD. BUT THIS BLOG TRUE TO ITS COMMITMENTS IS DEMOCRATICALLY OPEN TO ANY ONE . WOES AS WELL AS FRIENDS OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY. IT IS OUR DUTY TO STRUGGLE FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE CUBAN PEOPLE AND NOT FOR THE PERPETUATION OF A TYRANNY.

DAIRY PRODUCTS , half of its comsummers needs were produced in Cuba itself.

Some of the CHEESE were imported from Spain, France and Switzerland.

FRESH AND PROCESSED MEATS, totally self sufficient .

Some products were imported,i.e. hams, saussages from Spain

CORN, in Cuba up to four crops a year rendered enough for the cubans and its cattle raising industry.

COFFEE, CACAO, Cuba rarely had to import these items.

SUGAR, Cuba was the number one EXPORTER OF IT. IN THE WORLD. From 5 to 7 millions tons a year.

TOBACCO, CUBA ONLY IMPORTED A MINIMUM of it, from the USA, because of the type and variety

were not good enough when produced in Cuba.I am talking here of the MILD BRANDS OF TOBACCO.

VIRGINIA SEEDS WERE IMPORTED BUT NEVER YIELDING THE SAME QUEALITY.

For the rest every one knows the best tobacco and cigar are cubans and it was and is one of the main export products of Cuba.

THE QUESTION EACH OF THOSE APOLOGISTS FOR THAT REGIME MUST ASK THEMSELVES IS :

WHY AND HOW COMES THAT ALMOST 90 % OF THE CUBAN FARMLAND IS SINCE THE LATE 60's in the hands or under the control of the State.??

What happened with those THREE AGRARIAN REFORMS staged in three different periods of time in the 60's ????

The ""agrarian reform ..WAS IT NOT because the improductive, iddle lands in the hands of latifundists( big land owners) that the thugs in power carried those ""land reforms"" out ???

How comes that 52 yrs. later the are iddle lands by the hundred of thousands of acres ???

This and many other big questions could be asked to them...!!

However the cuban coffee can be bought in many cities around the world,

in Canada as well.

And so many of the food products of Cuba can be purchased in many countries...such as the citric fruits, and fruits juices and conserves, fish and sea food...which are prohibited to the cubans on the island. P.Martori

"The storms are a heavy blow for President Raúl Castro, who has made raising agricultural production a national priority. The rise in global commodity prices hit Cuba hard. The island imports 80% of its food, at a cost of $2.5 billion, and its huge trade deficit has soared this year by 70% to more than $11 billion, according to official figures out this week. That is only partly covered by the $7.8 billion Cuba receives for "export services"—doctors and sports trainers sent to Venezuela in exchange for oil." http://www.economist.com/node/12851246?Story_ID=E1_TNRVTNQG

"Cubans are already suffering from the economic crisis. The country imports 80% of its food, including sugar. A housing shortage affects almost everyone. Healthcare is handicapped by the export of personnel. Travel, controlled by the army and foreign investors, is booming but hampered by the cost of imports." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/11/cuba-economic-crisis-cuts...

"The necessity for reform stemmed from arable land lying idle, 50 percent of the total, and the burden, which continues, of importing 80 percent of food consumed in Cuba. Annual food import costs approach $2.4 billion. Fallow land resulted largely from the government's 2002 decision to downgrade the sugar industry." http://www.peoplesworld.org/solving-the-problem-of-cuban-agriculture/